The Hoover building was an ugly pile when it was built. The fairy wanted something that would stand out from the average DC architecture. It's been compared to a clothes iron, to damn with faint praise.
Look up Clyde Tolson, Hoover's lover. Read the book "Public Enemies" by Bryan Burroughs. The book has no particular ax to grind, and pretty much says, out loud, how reporters would comment on how "fastidious" J Edgar was. Gaydar is not new. In the Thirties, that was pretty much saying that Hoover could suck start a car. No one would have pushed it while he was alive, however, and Tolson destroyed all of Hoover's private files the day he died.
The Hoover building was an ugly pile when it was built. The fairy wanted something that would stand out from the average DC architecture. It's been compared to a clothes iron, to damn with faint praise.
Look up Clyde Tolson, Hoover's lover. Read the book "Public Enemies" by Bryan Burroughs. The book has no particular ax to grind, and pretty much says, out loud, how reporters would comment on how "fastidious" J Edgar was. Gaydar is not new. In the Thirties, that was pretty much saying that Hoover could suck start a car. No one would have pushed it while he was alive, however, and Tolson destroyed all of Hoover's private files the day he died.